The increased requirements of modern analytical workloads, querying billions of rows on demand, are a challenge for relational databases because they're optimized for transactional workloads. While ...

Database sizes have grown exponentially, with more than half of all databases in use globally projected to exceed 10TB by 2010, according to The Data Warehouse Institute. But as the size of data ...

When I listed 5 data management technologies you probably should know more about, two of them were data warehouse appliances and columnar DBMS. And that was before today’s announcement that Microsoft ...

A new Rust-based database engine, InfluxDB IOx, brings an in-memory columnar store, unlimited cardinality, and SQL language support to the open source time series database, raising the bar for ...